In the beginning of If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino carefully sets the scene for
the reading experience of his intensely metafictional novel: Find the most comfortable …

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In cognitive research, metaphors have been shown to help us imagine com plex, abstract, or
invisible ideas, concepts, or emotions. Contributors to this book argue that metaphors occur …

Only recently, the broad research program of embodied cognition has fuelled a substantial
and ongoing body of research at the crossroads of cognitive science and film studies. Two …

Horror movies consistently reflect metaphorical associations between verticality and affect,
as well as between brightness and affect. For example, bad events happen when movie …

Cognitive linguists have argued that metaphors are anchored in our embodied experiences.
Cultural, linguistic, and gestural representations are often seen as reflections of underlying …

The discourse of sound motion pictures has evolved to become a cultural practice through
which people attempt to grasp their subjective cognitive reality as part of a shared world. By …

Consider the beginning of Nabokov's Lolita:“Lo-leeta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of
three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta”(1997: 9). The well …

In cognitive research, metaphors have been shown to act as elementary structures of human
thinking and mental imagination (Lakoff 1987; Johnson 1987; Danesi 1989; Boroditzky and …